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Hood, texas today. what can you tell us about this fight we are hearing about? >> good morning heather and heather. the lieutenant on the post said theres a strong possibility there was some kind of altercation with a soldier or multiple soldiers just before the shooting happened on wednesday. we were talking to some soldiers here on the post yesterday. he was showing a text message that was going around among his friends. others saying there was an altercation on the post. an argument lopez had...

Expand opportunity on my own, i will. im going to ask business leaders, education leaders to partner with us to advance these goals. >> republicans are focusing their weekly address on creating new jobs. they have identified four areas that president obama outlined in the state of the union address. they include pediatric research, paid time off for workers, more job training and all of the above energy policy, including pipelines for increased natural gas production. as they push for the all of...

Were still waiting to get abby on the game show though. >> some day. >> in addition to traditional tv, were all being sucked into the digital universe. we launched our new website and thanks to you, our facebook fan base grew by 24%. if you havent done it already, like us on the facebook. if you have not noticed were never scared to try different things on the web or television as we train the next generation of me, her name is ella and i have to say, shes pretty cute. >> walmart has decided tha...

And police took the computer as evidence. no hard feelings? >> no hard feelings. i know it sounds strange. i have a lot of respect for authority. >> reporter: thats when another guardian angel entered his life. her name is logan and shes been following the saga. when she heard about the arrest, she took time off, flew cross country and gave him a computer of her own. she thinks this friendship could inspire a new kind of mentorship for countless other leos. if patrick was teaching leo english, f...

That presents a problem because whats going to happen is those who do file are going to get paid twice for work they never did. heres why. congress has already said federal workers will get paid for their furloughed time off, but many will also collect unemployment, so taxpayers are paying twice; once in back pay, once in unemployment. >> so that will create a situation in which there will be overpayments to these federal employees that the states will be expected to collect back from the claima...

Time for congress. look at them rushing to leave last week, bolting for the exits. get me out of here. august recess time in congress used to mean vacation, right? time off from politics. now it means congress rushes home not to vacation, but to the screaming town halls. orchestrated for maximum confrontational youtube ability. this newly shoutty political august can be fun as far as politics goes as long as youre not the one being screamed at. if youre not just a back bencher, if youre in the c...

Make a deal. >> but there doesnt seem to be that kind of talk. a lot of people want deals and they are so divergent and different and you have non-deal-makers trying to make a very complicated deal and actually if you lock at it its not so complicated. pretty obvious what has to be done. youre dealing with non-deal-makers. you have to have great leadership, and if the leadership isnt going to come to fore its going to be a big problem and come later on, september 30th, you could have a real disa...

Whether at the end of the day it will be something like 10 to 20 years, which with the way in which the military works with time off and credit, et cetera, would be much less substantial. but this is absolutely central to what the government has been trying to do. when we look at the war on whistleblowers more broadly, its exactly about trying to create an environment where people of good conscience who see wrong in the area of national security will be scared out of their wits not to do it. tha...

Morning, next door neighbor did something about the government leaking information. i said, what? >> reporter: he was working here, the honolulu office of government contractor and global consultancy. in a statement, the company had said he had been there for less than three months. >> over time, that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up and you feel compelled to talk about it, and the more you talk about it, the more youre ignored and told its not a problem, until eventually you realize th...

>> i wouldnt believe it. somebody come in here this morning and say your next door neighbor did something about the government leaking information. i said what? >> reporter: he was working here, the honolulu office of government contractor and global consulta consultant. he had been there less than three months. >> over time, that awareness of wrong doing sort of builds up and you feel compelled to talk bette, and the more you talk about it, the more youre ignored, the more youre told its not a ...